Wow, reading this VILE history is really interesting. I have two questions. First, who came up with the name VILE? And second, is there anything that Carmen and Adrianna disagreed on that almost caused a break in the organization?
One of my most prized possessions is a clay model of Venus and Adonis by Antonio Canova, created in 1787. It features the goddess Venus clutching tightly to her dead Adonis. It's very much different from the happy standing marble statues that was the end result of Canova's studies. The clay itself is falling apart, and even has the artist's thumb print.
It meant little to me as a child when I first saw it, but as I grew older the raw emotion portrayed by these two 'blobs of clay' caught my attention. Venus grips her lover from behind, her entire body supporting his lean. The artist clearly wanted to convey her pain. Adonis himself is of course dead and reclines, seemingly without worldly care.
The statue is no longer in my private collection but is on loan to a museum through a holding company. I thought it was best, as a museum would expertly keep the clay from degrading further.
Wow, reading this VILE history is really interesting. I have two questions. First, who came up with the name VILE? And second, is there anything that Carmen and Adrianna disagreed on that almost caused a break in the organization?
Yes, well, we never called ourselves VILE until some ACME Agent with a knack for anagrams wrote down 'Villains International League of Evil (V.I.L.E.)' into to the form after @Vic Fumigalli's first arrest. Vincent had refused to give a name and law enforcement with their silly forms always needed to label something.
As for your second question, the answer is yes. Like sisters, we have fought. She's very logical and I am rather emotional. But of the two of us, she is the stubborn one. Like a moth, she consistently is drawn to a flame and that is where we differ. I prefer to have my own private garden, with my own little controlled flames to play with. @Carmen needs to have elements she cannot control. I'm sure you can understand how difficult it can be to keep her out of the risks she creates. The break in this organisation is bound to happen if we are leaderless, which is something I hope she keeps in mind.
I've only had one true love, a pair of diamond chandelier earrings that once belonged to CIA Spy Grace Kelly...
Oh you mean husbands? One on paper, of course. but I do have strings of noncommittal relationships that are almost like marriages.
Oh please! You don't expect me to believe a Hollywood actress like Grace Kelly would agree to spend the rest of her life with a fat man and a casino. Back then, Monte Carlo was nothing.
I don't have siblings, darling. We're the sort of family that if I had siblings, I'd know about them, and exactly how much inheritance I'd have to share.
@Lucy ... don't know if you really want wolf spiders in your home... I'd go for jumping spiders, they can't bite... wolf spiders are the fast movers, and they can bite.
((Will lose my ACP internet towards the end of the month, unless anyone knows about it ending sooner. Trying to switch my Lifeline phone to a better provider that doesn't shut me off after four and a half gigs of data, nothing but failure so far and "call here" and "it's on their end" and the back and forth crap... in the morning, it's time to demand the supervisor and might even get to harsh language (after three days of that). I plan to use the Lifeline phone tethered as Internet source, share that to my own router... I've done it before (it's messy, and not 100% effective, but it works). ))
((The 'net is the main way to apply for jobs now, so I need that, and I've moved/changed Lifeline providers before without an issue, so no idea what the problem is. I have active Verizon through ACP, active Lifeline through Airtalk... is that somehow the issue? If anyone knows, please let me know before I tear someone a new one (ya know what I mean). After three days of this, and two days about a month ago, I'm ready to walk there with katana in hand.))
((And, thoughout this process, I want to port my number (have the info for that) and use the phone I have (Samsung Galaxy S9... gotten for free through Airtalk... note to anyone: if you choose a nice phone through them, you are locked into a 120 day "commitment" to get the phone for free, and they have a very hard data limit... once you use up your data, they cut you off, point blank.))